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The Sentinel (short story)
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity", which was used as a starting point for the and "2001: A Space Odyssey".
"The Sentinel" was written in 1948 for a BBC competition (in whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31434 |
The Fountains of Paradise
The Fountains of Paradise is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary orbit at the heig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31435 |
Tagalog language
Tagalog () () is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named "Filipino", is the national language of the Philippines, and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31438 |
Tokamak
A tokamak () is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. , it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.
Tok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31439 |
Turbopump
A turbopump is a propellant pump with two main components: a rotodynamic pump and a driving gas turbine, usually both mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes geared together. The purpose of a turbopump is to produce a high-pressure fluid for feeding a combustion chamber or other use.
There are two types of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31440 |
Tragedy of the anticommons
The tragedy of the anticommons is a type of coordination breakdown, in which a single resource has numerous rightsholders who prevent others from using it, frustrating what would be a socially desirable outcome. It is a mirror-image of the older concept of tragedy of the commons, in which nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31441 |
Thealogy
Thealogy views divine matters with feminine perspectives including but not only feminism. Valerie Saiving, Isaac Bonewits (1976) and Naomi Goldenberg (1979) introduced the concept as a neologism (new word) in feminist terms. Its use then widened to mean all feminine ideas of the sacred, which Charlotte Caron ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31444 |
Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes.
These were inshore craft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31446 |
The Book of the Courtier
The Book of the Courtier ( ) by Baldassare Castiglione, is a lengthy philosophical dialogue on the topic of what constitutes an ideal courtier or (in the third chapter) court lady, worthy to befriend and advise a Prince or political leader. The book quickly became enormously popular and was as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31447 |
Traceroute
In computing, codice_1 and codice_2 are computer network diagnostic commands for displaying the route (path) and measuring transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The history of the route is recorded as the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31448 |
Time to live
Time to live (TTL) or hop limit is a mechanism that limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network. TTL may be implemented as a counter or timestamp attached to or embedded in the data. Once the prescribed event count or timespan has elapsed, data is discarded or revalidated. In computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31449 |
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( – "Tel Aviv-Yafo" ; – "Tall ʾAbīb - Yāfā"), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of , it is the economic and technological center of the country. If East J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31453 |
Clangers
Clangers (usually referred to as "The Clangers") is a British stop-motion children's television series, made of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. They speak only in a whistled language. They eat only green soup (supplied by the Soup Dragon) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31454 |
Terry Brooks
Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations. He has written 23 "New York Times" bestsellers during his writing career, and has sold over 25 million copies of his books in print. He is one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31455 |
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration; smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful and may be configured to be mounted with specialized equipment, such as in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31456 |
Thomas the Apostle
Thomas the Apostle (; ; ; "Tʾōmā šliḥā" ("Thoma Sheliha")), also called Didymus ("twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told of it (as related in the Gospel of Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31459 |
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer. He has received various accolades for his work, including three Golden Globe Awards and three nominations for Academy Awards. With a net worth of $570 million as of 2020, he is one of the highest-paid actors in the world. In ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31460 |
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, guitar), D'arcy Wretzky (bass), James Iha (guitar), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), the band has undergone many line-up changes. The current lineup ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31463 |
Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (; 13/14 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography.
In his 1798 book "An Essay on the Principle of Population", Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31468 |
Tengwar
The tengwar are an artificial script created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Within the fictional context of Tolkien's legendarium, the tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elven tongues Quenya and Telerin. Later a great number of languages of Middle-earth were written using the tengwar, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31469 |
Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos, August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31471 |
Transcription factor
In molecular biology, a transcription factor (TF) (or sequence-specific DNA-binding factor) is a protein that controls the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding to a specific DNA sequence. The function of TFs is to regulate—turn on and off—genes in orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31474 |
Thebaine
Thebaine (paramorphine), also known as codeine methyl enol ether, is an opiate alkaloid, its name coming from the Greek Θῆβαι, "Thēbai" (Thebes), an ancient city in Upper Egypt. A minor constituent of opium, thebaine is chemically similar to both morphine and codeine, but has stimulatory rather than depressan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31479 |
THC (disambiguation)
THC is tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active chemical compound in cannabis.
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Tangent
In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More precisely, a straight line is said to be a tangent of a curve at a po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31482 |
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) served as a Confederate general (1861–1863) during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee. Jackson played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31485 |
Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as trade schools and colleges. Higher educ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31486 |
Trimix (breathing gas)
Trimix is a breathing gas consisting of oxygen, helium and nitrogen and is used in deep commercial diving, during the deep phase of dives carried out using technical diving techniques, and in advanced recreational diving.
The helium is included as a substitute for some of the nitrogen, to reduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31489 |
Theoretical chemistry
Theoretical chemistry is the branch of chemistry which develops theoretical generalizations that are part of the theoretical arsenal of modern chemistry: for example, the concepts of chemical bonding, chemical reaction, valence, the surface of potential energy, molecular orbitals, orbital interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31491 |
The Skeptical Environmentalist
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (, literal translation: "The True State of the World") is a book by Danish environmentalist author Bjørn Lomborg, controversial for its claims that overpopulation, declining energy resources, deforestation, species los... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31492 |
Tricyclic antidepressant
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are a class of medications that are used primarily as antidepressants. TCAs were discovered in the early 1950s and were marketed later in the decade. They are named after their chemical structure, which contains three rings of atoms. Tetracyclic antidepressants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31494 |
Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31496 |
Turners
Turners () are members of German-American gymnastic clubs called Turnverein. They promoted German culture, physical culture, liberal politics, and supported the Union war effort during the American Civil War. Turners, especially Francis Lieber, 1798–1872, were the leading sponsors of gymnastics as an American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31500 |
Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction when there is a general decline in economic activity. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop in spending (an adverse demand shock). This may be triggered by various events, such as a financial crisis, an external trade shock, an ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25382 |
RSA (cryptosystem)
RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is one of the first public-key cryptosystems and is widely used for secure data transmission. In such a cryptosystem, the encryption key is public and distinct from the decryption key which is kept secret (private). In RSA, this asymmetry is based on the practical difficu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25385 |
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and retired Naval officer. Sometimes called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25389 |
Russia
Russia (), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Covering an area of , it is the largest country in the world by area, spanning more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25391 |
Rational choice theory
Rational choice theory, also known as choice theory or rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior. The basic premise of rational choice theory is that aggregate social behavior results from the behavior of individual actors, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25400 |
Romance languages
The Romance languages (nowadays rarely Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries. They are a subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language family.
Today, around 800 million people are nativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25401 |
Rugby football
Rugby football is a collective name for the team sports of rugby union and rugby league, as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games evolved. Canadian football, and to a lesser extent American football were also broadly considered forms of rugby football but are seldom now referred to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25402 |
Rugby union
Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a full contact team sport that originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players using an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25405 |
Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams. The tournament was first held in 1987, when the tournament was co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.
The winners are awarded the Webb Ellis Cup, named after William Webb Ellis, the R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25406 |
Recursion
Recursion (adjective: "recursive") occurs when a thing is defined in terms of itself or of its type. Recursion is used in a variety of disciplines ranging from linguistics to logic. The most common application of recursion is in mathematics and computer science, where a function being defined is applied with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25407 |
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd previously served as a U.S. Representative fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25408 |
Reptile
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.
Because some reptile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25409 |
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like "road"), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh least populous, but it is also the second most densely populated. Rhode Island is bordered by Conn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25410 |
Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s from musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, and country music. While e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25412 |
Religion
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25414 |
Reed College
Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at its center.
Reed is known for its academic rigor, mandatory fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25417 |
Proof by contradiction
In logic and mathematics, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or the validity of a proposition, by showing that assuming the proposition to be false leads to a contradiction. Proof by contradiction is also known as indirect proof, proof by assuming the opposite, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25418 |
Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The components of rap include "content" (what is being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25421 |
Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25423 |
Retronym
A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form/version from a more recent one. It is thus a word or phrase created to avoid confusion between two types, whereas previously (before there were more than one type), no clarification was required.
Advances in technology are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25424 |
Superman
Superman is a fictional superhero. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and first appeared in the comic book "Action Comics" #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). The character regularly appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and has been adapted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28381 |
Splay tree
A splay tree is a self-balancing binary search tree with the additional property that recently accessed elements are quick to access again. It performs basic operations such as insertion, look-up and removal in O(log n) amortized time. For many sequences of non-random operations, splay trees perform better ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28382 |
List of The Sandman characters
This is a list of characters appearing in "The Sandman" comic book, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. This page discusses not only events which occur in "The Sandman" (1989–1994), but also some occurring in spinoffs of "The Sandman", such as "The Dreaming" (1996–2001) and "Lucifer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28388 |
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Seahawks joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team. Currently coached... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28390 |
The Saint (Simon Templar)
The Saint is the nickname of the fictional character Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Chart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28392 |
Stuttering
Stuttering, also known as stammering and dysphemia, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28394 |
Saxony
Saxony ( ; ), officially the Free State of Saxony (German: , Upper Sorbian: ), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28395 |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( or Scots Gaelic, sometimes referred to simply as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Modern Irish and Manx, has developed out of Old Irish. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28397 |
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (; , "Basileía tōn Seleukidōn") was a Hellenistic state ruled by the Seleucid dynasty which existed from 312 BC to 63 BC; Seleucus I Nicator founded it following the division of the Macedonian Empire vastly expanded by Alexander the Great. Seleucus received Babylonia (321 BC) and fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28398 |
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000 inhabitants. Silesia is split into two main sub-regions of Lower Silesia in the west and Upper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28399 |
Sudetes
The Sudetes (; also known as the Sudeten after their German name; Czech: "Krkonošsko-jesenická subprovincie" or "Sudety"; Polish: "Sudety") are a mountain range in Central Europe. They are the highest part of Bohemian Massif. They stretch from the Saxon capital of Dresden in the northwest, to the Głubczyce pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28401 |
Sigismund Báthory
Sigismund Báthory (; 1573 – 27 March 1613) was Prince of Transylvania several times between 1586 and 1602, and Duke of Racibórz and Opole in Silesia in 1598. His father, Christopher Báthory, ruled Transylvania as voivode (or deputy) of the absent prince, Stephen Báthory. Sigismund was still a child w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28405 |
Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28406 |
Stephen Báthory
Stephen Báthory (; ; Lithuanian: ; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576), Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), from 1576 Queen Anna Jagiellon's husband and "jure uxoris" King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586).
The son of Stephen VIII Báthory and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28407 |
Subud
Subud (pronounced ), acronym of Susila Budhi Dharma, is an international spiritual movement that began in Indonesia in the 1920s, founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo (1901-1987). The basis of Subud is a spiritual exercise called the "latihan kejiwaan", which was said by Muhammad Subuh to represent guidance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28408 |
Stolen Generations
The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The remov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28412 |
Septimius Severus
Septimius Severus ( ; Lucius Septimius Severus Eusebes Pertinax; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28413 |
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New York Gothams, and renamed three years later the New York ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28416 |
San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego, California. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won two NL pennants—in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28417 |
Sinclair QL
The Sinclair QL (for "Quantum leap") microcomputer is a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The QL was aimed at the serious home user and professional and executive users markets from small to medium-sized businesses and higher e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28418 |
Specific heat capacity
The specific heat capacity of a substance is the heat capacity of a sample of the substance divided by the mass of the sample. Informally, it is the amount of energy that must be added, in the form of heat, to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in its tem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28420 |
Slingshot
A slingshot (US) or catapult (UK), ging (primarily Australian and New Zealand), shanghai (Australian and New Zealand) or kettie (South Africa) is normally a small hand-powered projectile weapon. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame held in the off hand (nondominant hand), with two natural-rubber str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28422 |
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the U.S. suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" as Starship Soldier, and published as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28426 |
Telephone switchboard
Throughout the 20th century, telephone switchboards were devices used to connect circuits of telephones to establish telephone calls between users and/or other switchboards. The switchboard was an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and was operated by switchboard operators who us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28427 |
Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. While the exploration of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration though is conducted both by unmanned robotic space probes and human spaceflight. Space exploration, like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28431 |
Outline of space science
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space science:
Space science encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28434 |
Shepherd Neame Brewery
Shepherd Neame is an English independent brewery founded in 1698 in Faversham, Kent, and family-owned since 1864. The brewery produces a range of cask ales and filtered beers. Production is around 210,000 brewers' barrels a year. It owns 328 pubs and hotels, predominantly in Kent, London and Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28435 |
Saint
A saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God. However, the use of the term "saint" depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28436 |
Simple harmonic motion
In mechanics and physics, simple harmonic motion is a special type of periodic motion where the restoring force on the moving object is directly proportional to, and opposite of, the object's displacement vector. It results in an oscillation which, if uninhibited by friction or any other dissipa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28437 |
Syracuse, Sicily
Syracuse is a historic city on the island of Sicily, the capital of the Italian province of Syracuse. The city is notable for its rich Greek and Roman history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes. This 2,700-year-old city ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28441 |
Sorting algorithm
In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order. The most frequently used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order. Efficient sorting is important for optimizing the efficiency of other algorithms (such as search and merge algorithm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28442 |
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse () is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers.
At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,252, and its metropolitan area had a popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28443 |
Sleep apnea
Sleep apnea, also spelled sleep apnoea, is a sleep disorder where a person has pauses in breathing or periods of shallow breathing during sleep. Each pause can last for a few seconds to a few minutes and they happen many times a night. In the most common form, this follows loud snoring. There may be a chok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28445 |
South African English
South African English (SAfrE, SAfrEng, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English dialects native to South Africans.
British colonists first colonised the South African region in 1795, when they established a military holding operation at the Cape Colony. The goal of this first endeavour was to gain cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28447 |
Speech processing
Speech processing is the study of speech signals and the processing methods of signals. The signals are usually processed in a digital representation, so speech processing can be regarded as a special case of digital signal processing, applied to speech signals. Aspects of speech processing includes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28448 |
Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its native name , is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of East and Southern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, some parts of Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Moz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28450 |
Summary offence
A summary offence is a crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment (required for an indictable offence).
In Canada, summary offences are referred to as summary conviction offences. As in other jurisdictions, summar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28452 |
Perjury
Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding. In some jurisdictions, contrary to popular misconception, no crime has occurred when a false statement is (intentionally o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23688 |
Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid. It most commonly means orthophosphate, a derivative of orthophosphoric acid .
The phosphate or orthophosphate ion is derived from phosphoric acid by the removal of three protons . Removal of one or two pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23690 |
Prime number theorem
In number theory, the prime number theorem (PNT) describes the asymptotic distribution of the prime numbers among the positive integers. It formalizes the intuitive idea that primes become less common as they become larger by precisely quantifying the rate at which this occurs. The theorem was pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23692 |
Conflict of laws
Conflict of laws (sometimes called private international law) concerns relations across different legal jurisdictions between natural persons, companies, corporations and other legal entities, their legal obligations and the appropriate forum and procedure for resolving disputes between them. Conflict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23693 |
Timeline of programming languages
This is a record of historically important programming languages, by decade. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23696 |
International Fixed Calendar
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar and the Eastman plan) is a solar calendar proposal for calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, who presented it in 1902. It divides the solar year into 13 months of 28 days each. It is theref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23698 |
Potential energy
In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.
Common types of potential energy include the gravitational potential energy of an object that depends on its mass and its dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23703 |
Pyramid
A pyramid (from "") is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or of any polygon shape. As such, a pyramid has at least three outer triangular sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23704 |
Predestination
Predestination, in Christian theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the "paradox of free will", whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23705 |
Primitive notion
In mathematics, logic, philosophy, and formal systems, a primitive notion is a concept that is not defined in terms of previously defined concepts. It is often motivated informally, usually by an appeal to intuition and everyday experience. In an axiomatic theory, relations between primitive notions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23706 |
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